The Trump presidency finally and for all time pulled the mask off their "we oppose big government" lie - there is no conceivable way a government could be "bigger" than for it to establish martial law.

Some say the Republican Party has gone nuts. In reality, they've simply reached the endpoint toward which they've been moving for 62 years: fascism.

Republican politicians since Barry Goldwater's 1960 campaign have trash-talked "big government" in the United States. Like Reagan's assertions that cutting taxes on rich people would "trickle down" benefits to poor people, or his claim that destroying labor unions would increase take-home pay for working people, this one's just another lie.

Since the 1980s, in fact, the GOP has been the ultimate "big government" party. And now we're learning that Republicans in Congress were, just three days before Joe Biden was to be sworn in as president, calling for the ultimate big government power: martial law to prevent Biden's inauguration.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Republicans Planned to End Democracy with Martial Law - the Ultimate "Big Government"" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene texted Trump aide Mark Meadows about using 'Marshall law' after Jan. 6 riot, report says" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Senate Republicans want to ban Biden from canceling student debt" by Laura Clawson.

Law: "10 U.S. Code Chapter 13 - Insurrection".

Article: "Conspiracy theories from GOP's Scott Perry went amazingly far" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Pentagon to cut troop levels to 2,500 in Afghanistan, Iraq" by Courtney Kube and Saphora Smith.

Article: "Trump loyalist Kash Patel blocking some Pentagon officials from helping Biden transition" by Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee.

Article: "Trump loyalists given top Pentagon roles after several officials resign following Esper's ouster" by Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.

Article: "Biden Ups Ante, Asks for $33 Billion for Ukraine, Additional COVID-19 Funding" by Susan Milligan.

Article: "Roger Stone plan phase one: take Congress back, make 45 House Speaker, impeach 46 & Veep, profit" by annieli.

Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elon Musk reaches deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion" by Jason Abbruzzese and Rob Wile.

Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.

Article: "Yom HaShoah" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mariupol, Ukraine, officials warn that 'powerful, deadly epidemics could soon break out'" by Greg Norman.

Article: "Ohio Lawmaker Says Pregnancy from Rape Is an 'Opportunity'" by Caitlin Cruz.

Article: "Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020" by Donna L. Hoyert.

Article: "GI Bill of Rights: A Profitable Investment for the United States" by Labor Party.

Article: "Kent State shootings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike DeWine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nixon's Secret Plan to End the Vietnam War" by History.com.

Article: "Independence Day (Estonia)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "US, Estonia partnered to search out cyber threat from Russia" by Eric Tucker.

Article: "Skype" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Moore" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: biggest trade vote you've never heard about
- Lori Wallach, Director - Rethink Trade, American Economic Liberties Project

Article: "Circular Firing Squad?" by Lori Wallach.

Article: "Legislative Process 101—Conference Committee" by Indivisible.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The "Medicare Advantage" Plan to Kill Real Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'Everything is halted': Shanghai shutdowns are worsening shortages" by Abha Bhattarai.

Article: "GDP drops 1.4%, US economy shrinks for first time since 2020 " by Ariel Zilber.

Article: "Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018" by In The Know.

Article: "Stagflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democratic socialism" by Wikipedia.

Video: Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage. "When does the greed stop?"

Article: "The 10 Richest People in the World" by Dan Moskowitz.

Article: "Breakup of the Bell System" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Utilities for democracy: Why and how the algorithmic infrastructure of Facebook and Google must be regulated" by Josh Simons and Dipayan Ghosh.

Article: "Standard Oil" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Can we make Facebook and Google "democratic utilities?"" by Mathew Ingram.

Article: "Tuition fees in Finland: Everything you need to know" by Study.eu.

Article: "Countries With Free College" by WorldAtlas.

Article: "Down Syndrome and Maternal Age" by Wayne W. LaMorte.

Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Starbucks workers are fighting a very intense union-busting campaign
- Daisy Pitkin, Organizer for over 20 years & is currently working on the Starbucks campaign w/SEIU, Workers United in Pittsburgh, PA / Author of the new book, On The Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity and Two Women's Epic Fight To Build A Union

Article: "Starbucks unions" by Wikipedia.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Ludlow Massacre", 1914 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "The geography of the Great Resignation: First-time data shows where Americans are quitting the most" by Alyssa Fowers and Eli Rosenberg.

Article: "The Gospel of Organizing" by Daisy Pitkin.

Article: "GOP Senators Unveil Bill to Bar Biden From Canceling Student Debt" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Thomas Jefferson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Videos Calling Putin's Health Into Question Viewed Over 3.5 Million Times" by Matthew Impelli.

Article: "The U.S. promises to gradually reopen its embassy in Ukraine" by Michele Kelemen, Emma Bowman.

Article: "Labor unions in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare & Medi-Cal Dual-Eligible Medi-Medi Beneficiaries" by HICAP.

Article: "News Conference, August 12, 1986" by Ronald Reagan. "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help"

Article: "Rush to get emergency contraception into Ukraine as reports of rape rise" by Weronika Strzyżyńska.

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